To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ Landing at Plymouth Rock, Daniel Webster (1782–1852), former congressman and future senator and secretary of state, delivered this long discourse to the assembled members of the Pilgrim Society. Always the consummate New Englander, Webster sketched 200 years of American history, surveyed the present era, and projected grand future prospects for a nation barely 40 years old, but with deep roots in Reformed Protestant values and English constitutionalism. Underlying all was his belief that “The character of their political institutions was determined by the fundamental laws respecting property.” Webster’s stories highlight the political, economic, intellectual, and moral contributi...
Samuel Danforth’s election sermon of 1670 is a classic example of the New England jeremiad. Addresse...
Daniel Webster, one of the most prominent politicians and orators in American history, effectively e...
International audienceSettling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop's New Englan...
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ Landing at Plymouth Rock, Daniel Webst...
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ Landing at Plymouth Rock, Daniel Webst...
Buff printed paper cover has title: Mr. Webster's Plymouth discourse. Third edition.Last page contai...
The importance of illustrating New England history by a series of romances like the Waverley novels....
Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & F...
Last two pages contain a list of the discourses delivered on the anniversary of the settlement of Pl...
Lecture six traces the beginnings of the Pilgrim-Puritan Church in Salem, going as far back as 1623 ...
This lecture covers the Mayflower Compact and the creation of a religious body politic -- the seed o...
By John Pitman, Member of the Rhode Island Historical Society. 1836. An address given on the bi-cent...
In 1696 there appeared in Boston an anonymous 16mo volume of 56 pages containing four “epistles,” wr...
Samuel Danforth’s election sermon of 1670 is a classic example of the New England jeremiad. Addresse...
For more than 150 years the New England Primer, often called “The Little Bible of New England,” serv...
Samuel Danforth’s election sermon of 1670 is a classic example of the New England jeremiad. Addresse...
Daniel Webster, one of the most prominent politicians and orators in American history, effectively e...
International audienceSettling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop's New Englan...
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ Landing at Plymouth Rock, Daniel Webst...
To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Mayflower Pilgrims’ Landing at Plymouth Rock, Daniel Webst...
Buff printed paper cover has title: Mr. Webster's Plymouth discourse. Third edition.Last page contai...
The importance of illustrating New England history by a series of romances like the Waverley novels....
Avery Classics (Offsite) copy: Seymour B. Durst Old York Library Collection, Avery Architectural & F...
Last two pages contain a list of the discourses delivered on the anniversary of the settlement of Pl...
Lecture six traces the beginnings of the Pilgrim-Puritan Church in Salem, going as far back as 1623 ...
This lecture covers the Mayflower Compact and the creation of a religious body politic -- the seed o...
By John Pitman, Member of the Rhode Island Historical Society. 1836. An address given on the bi-cent...
In 1696 there appeared in Boston an anonymous 16mo volume of 56 pages containing four “epistles,” wr...
Samuel Danforth’s election sermon of 1670 is a classic example of the New England jeremiad. Addresse...
For more than 150 years the New England Primer, often called “The Little Bible of New England,” serv...
Samuel Danforth’s election sermon of 1670 is a classic example of the New England jeremiad. Addresse...
Daniel Webster, one of the most prominent politicians and orators in American history, effectively e...
International audienceSettling the Good Land: Governance and Promotion in John Winthrop's New Englan...